Leadership Transition How Leaders Turn Chaos into Growth

Organizations are becoming more fluid and chaotic than ever before. Many leaders face deeply destabilizing experiences at a younger age than in the past.

Popular writing on leadership transitions assumes that leaders are simply instruments of the business, and that the task of transitioning into a new role is primarily a task of becoming an even more useful instrument. Leadership Transition is the first attempt to bring lessons from post-trauma growth research into the realm of leadership development.

The book is for leaders who are undergoing significant transitions in their work, either because they’ve been promoted to new positions or because their organizations are changing in important ways. It is a guide to help these leaders use uncomfortable and sometimes involuntary disruptions in their work to re-examine their leadership, to explore their values, to think creatively about the difference they want to make, and, ultimately, to grow.

Michael Stanford is a leadership development consultant and founder of SUMMIT LEADERSHIP which assists organizations through times of significant change. Stanford led Transformational Leadership Practice at Korn Ferry. Prior to that, he was head of custom education at IMD where he spent nearly 20 years. Michael resides in Switzerland.